Automated Post-Processing

Dobbin Workflows

Rob PorettiCube-Tec North America

Chace Workflows 2.6

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Ingest – Migration to Pro-Tools AFI/Damage Test

Workflow 1

PART 1:Check mono BWF files with AFI/DAMAGEcriteria – Alert on failed. Passed files create MD5 and copy to new location.

PART 2:Test MD5 – on migrated files. Alert on failed.

PART 1 PART 2

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QT Demux – Extract Audio and Video for separate servers.

Workflow 2

AUDIO PART:Unwrap QuickTime DV or ProRes file. Create mono BWF files – one for each track. Use container time-stamp to define Originator Time in BWF. Test with DEC – Alert on failed. Passed files copy to audio server.

VIDEO PART:Move Video MOS files to video server.

AUDIO SERVERVIDEO SERVER

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Psycho-Acoustical Correlator for 5.1 BWFs

Workflow 3

Chace creates 5.1 soundtracks (discrete BWFs)

These are encoded to Dolby Digital, DTS and SDDS formats and then decoded back to BWFs.

Set up templates in Psychoacoustic Correlator to test files.

Original BWFs Encode/Decode BWFs

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Loudness Correction for BWF files.

Workflow 4

Profile 1 – Loudness values are defined for one set of BWFs.

Profile 2 – Loudness values are defined for a different set of BWFs.

Any number of profiles/work flows can be created.

Profile 1 Profile 2 … Profile x

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Automated Hum and Buzz Removal in Dailies

Workflow 5

Source files:8 channel BWF field recordings. (Interleaved multi-channel.)

AFI to test for hum. Rule defines hum threshold for processing criteria.

DeBuzz and Repair Filter to clean generator hum and buzz for production dialog cleanup.

8 channel BWF Field Recordings

Encode/Decode BWFs

Repair Filter

Spectral DeHiss

Hum Detector

DeBuzz

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